As you may have heard during today’s Sony Electronics press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, PlayStation and Netflix are teaming up again to bring tens of thousands of hours of movies and TV episodes from Netflix to the PS Vita for US customers.
The PlayStation Vita has a 5 inches OLED multi-touch screen (capacitive type), supporting approx. 16 million colours. It has an aspect ratio of 16:9 (widescreen) and supports a maximum resolution of 960px (width) by 544px (height).
The below is what a screenshot from the device looks like (click to see full size):
This week’s Japanese hardware sales charts show that the brand new PS Vita has sold only 42,648 units in the last week. That’s actually less units than the PSP sold (62,746 units to be exact) and considerably less than the 3DS (which moved nearly 200,000 machines).
The Final Fantasy X remake was originally announced back at the Tokyo Game Show in September 2011. According to Yoshinori Kitase, a producer for the original FFX, the PS3 and PlayStation Vita versions will be more than just a HD remaster – the game will be completely remade.
The PS Vita’s Internet Browser can be identified as:
Mozilla/5.0 (Playstation Vita x.xx) AppleWebKit/531.22.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Silk/3.2
For example, if you are running Firmware 1.61, your PS Vita user agent will look like:
Mozilla/5.0 (Playstation Vita 1.61) AppleWebKit/531.22.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Silk/3.2
We have teamed up with Iron Man 2 to give away five PlayStation Vita consoles to lucky winners. All you have to do is like our Facebook Fan Page and tell us what game (or type of game) Iron Man would play if he owned a PlayStation Vita…
Sony has released Firmware update v1.51 for the PlayStation Vita to fix the freezing bugs experienced by some users. The Japanese PlayStation website doesn’t mention specific details for the update, except that it may be required to play certain games and when accessing PlayStation Network features.
PlayStation Vita has only sold 72,479 units in its second week since launch, which is a rather disappointing figure after more than 320,000 units were sold in the first 48 hours since launch. In comparison, the PSP sold 101,121 units, while the 3DS shifted a staggering 482,200 units in the same seven days.
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This update was released in Japan only.
We would like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for the New Year. We hope to see you around in 2012 as we aim to bring you more PlayStation Vita content and news from across the globe.
